Features
Currently the following functionality is available:
- Results give very good agreement with commercial simulators,
e.g. comparison between Keysight ADS® and QucsStudio: for BJTs and for microstrip line. - more than 100 circuit components:
all popular lumped, RF and digital components,
microstrip, coplanar and stripline elements,
SGP, Statz, TOM3, HICUM, JFET, MOSFET models,
diode, photodiode, tunnel diode, SCR, triac, diac, OpAmp models,
user-defined components (time, frequency and mixed domain)
many others … - DC analysis
- AC analysis (including noise analysis)
- s-parameter analysis (including noise parameter calculation)
- transient analysis (including periodic steady-state simulation)
- Harmonic Balance analysis (including large-signal AC and noise analysis)
- system simulations
- parameter sweeps, powerful optimization algorithms, tolerance analysis and manual tuning with sliders
- creation of user components with:
equation-defined components (voltage or frequency dependent),
VerilogA using ADMS by Laurent Lemaitre,
C/C++ using MinGW compiler - digital simulations in Verilog using ICARUS by Stephen Williams
- digital simulations in VHDL using GHDL by Tristan Gingold
- electromagnetic field simulation of PCBs
- import of PCB layouts in HyperLynx format with hyp2mat by Koen De Vleeschauwer
- import of GDS II format with libGDSII by M. T. Homer Reid
- PCB layout using It.e.cad by Alberto Plano
- Gerber viewer using KiCAD by the KiCAD team
- numerical data processing using Octave by John W. Eaton et al.
- RF transmission line calculator for:
single & coupled microstrip line,
single & coupled coplanar waveguide,
single & coupled stripline,
coaxial transmission line,
rectangular waveguide
twisted pair - filter synthesis (LC ladder, stepped-Z, microstrip, active filters etc.)
- attenuator synthesis (resistive pi, tee, bridged-tee and splitter topology)
- component designer for inductances and capacitances
- GPIB device control
- import of SPICE and Touchstone files
- technical documentation of all models and types of simulation
- support of German and English language
- displaying HTML files (e.g. for documentation)